My Kind of Music (Mel Tormé album)

1961 studio album by Mel Tormé

My Kind of Music

Studio album by Mel Tormé

Released

1961

Recorded

July 18–21, 1961

Genre

Vocal jazz

Length

33:15

Label

Verve

Mel Tormé chronology

I Dig the Duke! I Dig the Count!
(1960)

My Kind of Music
(1961)

Comin' Home Baby!
(1962)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic
New Record Mirror

My Kind of Music is a 1961 album by Mel Tormé. This was the last album that Tormé recorded for Verve Records.

Track listing

"You and the Night and the Music" (Howard Dietz, Arthur Schwartz) – 2:28
"A Stranger in Town" (Mel Tormé) – 2:55
"I Guess I'll Have to Change My Plan" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 3:07
"Born to Be Blue" (Tormé, Robert Wells) – 2:55
"County Fair" (Tormé) – 6:23
"Dancing in the Dark" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 2:41
"Welcome to the Club" (Tormé) – 4:01
"By Myself" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 3:19
"The Christmas Song" (Tormé, Wells) – 2:48
"Alone Together" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 2:47
"A Shine on Your Shoes" (Dietz, Schwartz) – 3:13

Personnel

References

Allmusic review
Watson, Jimmy (10 November 1962). "Mel Torme: My Kind Of Music" (PDF). New Record Mirror. No. 87. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 April 2022. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
My Kind of Music at AllMusic

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Years given are for the recording(s), not first release, unless stated otherwise.
Studio albums	It's a Blue World (1955) Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-Tette (1956) Mel Tormé Sings Fred Astaire (1956) Mel Tormé's California Suite (1957) Prelude to a Kiss (1957) Tormé Meets the British (1957) Tormé (1958) Back in Town (1959) ¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May (1959) Broadway, Right Now! (1961) Mel Tormé Swings Shubert Alley (1960) I Dig the Duke! I Dig the Count! (1960–61) Swingin' on the Moon (and Margaret Whiting, 1960–61) My Kind of Music (1961) Mel Tormé Sings Sunday in New York & Other Songs About New York (1963) That's All (1964–66) Right Now! (1966) A Day in the Life of Bonnie and Clyde (1968) Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head (1969) Tormé: A New Album (1977) Together Again: For the First Time/When I Found You (and Buddy Rich, 1978) Top Drawer (and George Shearing, 1983) Mel Tormé, Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass (1986) Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – Reunion (1988) Nothing Without You (and Cleo Laine, 1991) Christmas Songs (1992) A Tribute to Bing Crosby (1994) Velvet & Brass ( and Rob McConnell, 1995)
Live albums	Mel Tormé at the Crescendo (1955) Mel Tormé at the Crescendo (1957) Songs for Any Taste (1957) Mel Tormé at the Red Hill (1962) Mel Tormé live at the Maisonette (1975) An Evening with George Shearing & Mel Tormé (1982) The Classic Concert Live (and Gerry Mulligan, George Shearing, 1982) An Evening at Charlie's (and George Shearing, 1983) A Vintage Year (and George Shearing, 1987) Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dektette – In Concert Tokyo (1988) Mel and George "Do" World War II (1990) Mel Tormé Live at the Fujitsu–Concord Festival 1990 (1990) Night at the Concord Pavilion (1990) Sing Sing Sing (1992) Mel Tormé Live at the Playboy Jazz Festival (1993) The Great American Songbook: Live at Michael's Pub (1992) An Evening with Mel Tormé (1996) Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual (2001)
Selected singles	"Comin' Home Baby" (1962)

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